New Mass Effect In Early Stages, BioWare Asks for Feedback

In September, BioWare revealed upcoming plans that included a brand new franchise as well as new Mass Effect title. Executive producer Casey Hudson wants to know what you'd like to see in it. "We're in early stages of designing a completely new Mass Effect game. What would you want to see in it,'" Hudson said on Twitter.

To all those people who are continuously complain about the ending of mass effect 3 you guy are some of the reason the doctors from bioware quit. I think that was the last straw for them. think about how it must feel for these guys to have poured their hearts and souls into this game and to have everyone hate it to the very point of protesting it until the developers feel forced into making an alternate ending. when making a game is no longer fun because every decision you make is being dictated by consumers its sad because these guys where incredibly creative and now bioware will never see that type of creativity again. I'm not saying people are not entitled to there opinion but instead of crying about it offer some constructive criticism tell them what they could have made better which is exactly what they are asking for right now but instead are recieving the majority of nothing but rude and useless comments from people who couldn't do there job any better which is not an easy task. I for one would love to see another mass effect game but one that allows you to completely make your own character from scratch and allow use to choose different races it would be so awsome to play as a drell and instead of it being semi open world I would love for it to be completely open world even if that means we are only on one planet as long as its big in scope like skyrim I'd love it and combat is awsome I would not change a thing about it.

Really, i want to be able to create a character fully, race, gender, etc. I honestly would like an opening similar to origins while maintaining the games action gameplay. But in the end, there are a lot of places a new mass effect game could go, even entirely new genres. Bioware will make it great no matter what.

Make it an RPG again. That's what I would like to see. A focus on leveling up, assigning points, drastically changing your character depending on what skill trees you decide to partake. I would like to see Mass Effect go back to what made it great in the first place. This whole emphasis on shooting is just lame, and totally turned me off from the series.

We have enough shooting games already. And if you must add a whole crap ton of shooting, make it very customizable. Have a ton of different weapons that can be customized in a ton of different ways. Make is so one persons shotgun is totally different from another persons. Just give us a ton of choice in everything, not just conversations.

I thoroughly enjoy the political intrigue of the ME universe, I would love to see a character driven game, focus on the seedy politics of the universe, without a galactic threat hanging over their head.

Make it a continuation of the events after 3, but now you play as Garrus or a brand new character altogether, and you experience the galaxy in shambles following the reapers. You help out worlds with repairs as well as fending of factions trying to take over the galaxy in it's weakened state. Now that the wars is over, you could have serious decision like now trying to once again get rid of the krogan now that they're no longer needed.

Um, an alternate universe? The timeline for Mass Effect is really short. The period from when humanity develops interstellar travel and becomes a prominent force of the Galactic stage was designed to be rapid to create a climate of hostility between us and the the races that had been doing this kinda thing for a lot longer, which was great when it meant proving Shepard's credibility as a badass recognizable enough to overcome bigotry, or the rationale for the Cerberus organization since it was only a couple of decades ago that we were handily being murderkilled by our now Turian allies and the Galaxy was still a very hostile place that didn't really accept us, but now that they have to find new stories to tell there isn't much background to plumb. They've got the first contact war with the Turians, a period of brief exploration and settlement along with treaty writing so we could get by without getting curb-stomped by the older guys, and not much else. Technology would have to take a step back, no new races could reasonably be introduced, and whatever those games would be about it'd have to be boring enough (or top secret oohOohhoohhh) to have not been mentioned in the original three. So not totally appealing.

On the other end they can't add on after the ending of ME3 without risking the severe injury of their audiences overblown yet surprisingly fragile sense of authorship over specific events in the series. They'd have to choose which ending really happened because that would define how society rebuilt over the next few centuries, what races remained after the conflict and what technology they had to work with from then on out, and all the people that decried the lack of choice in the conclusion will surely decry whatever revisionist history Bioware comes up with in order to continue the narrative.

So yeah, I'd propose an alternate universe accessed by a plot convenient rift in space time caused by some malfunction of a mass relay or something. Alternately, pretty much make it Star Trek, and have an appropriately diverse selection of rogues and bandits try to make their way through the Omega-4 relay, thinking that they had decoded the whoosit without the IFF, and instead of being killed in the minefield on the intended other end are shot off to the borders of the next nearest galaxy. They then spend the next 3 games coping with the complicated political machinations over there, discover and shoot all new races, and keep trying to make it back over to the Milky Way, always wondering if the next jump will send them home. New technology, new races, boatloads of new codex entries, easily sidesteps the galaxy shattering conflict of the first three games. Got pretty much everything.

Or do the "it was all a dream" retcon and really swing for the fences when pissing off their rabid fans. However it all shakes out I'll prolly still play it.